Jannely Espinal has been with the Shop TODAY team for over three years and has covered a variety of topics with a focus on fashion and footwear
Wedding dress illustration from 1959 Wedding dress, veil and ring from 1956 Traditional bride, Maid of Honor and flower girl from the 1950s (restored) Wedding illustration with pink-dressed bridesmaids from the early 50s How a bride in 1950 sewed a new bridal gown from a heirloom wedding dress Grandmothers treasure becomes a fashionable, ankle-length gown for todays bride Photos: 1900 Mrs Wray A Bentley, the grooms grandmother, as a bride / 1950 Remodeled gown on the new Mrs Bentley Stored away and preserved for fifty years, this lovely old heirloom wedding dress of pure silk satin was easily converted into a modern wedding gown for a new bride
The meal consisted of a plated-up full slice of boiled ham with a typical 1950s salad made of lettuce, spring onions, tomato, cucumber, beetroot, boiled egg all served with either creamed potato or new buttered potatoes and pickled chutneys
Today we would regard a ballerina-length wedding dress as a good choice for a semi-formal or civil wedding
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